Revolutionary Road (movie)

As the impact of the Internet and digital technology continues to treat publishing like an Etch-a-Sketch, seemingly redrawing its rules and parameters every other week, it's hard to know who is "winning" and who is "losing." According to Colin Robinson, co-publisher of OR Books writing in the New York Times, one of the losers is what's known as "mid-list" books. Mid-list novels tend to be literary fiction written by people you've never heard of that sell in modest or unprofitable numbers. -------------------- This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital...

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